A Product Design student came up with the wonderfully simple idea to create a product that is flexible and durable enough so that it can be used to change or repair ordinary products. From tea mugs to bikes to laptops. It can be done, and what’s even better: Sugru comes in many colours of the rainbow so it will automatically liven up whatever your repair.

Sugru is like clay, but it has a silicone component, making it waterproof, solid but still flexible at room temperature, and self-adhesive. Underneath you see a sum-up of its benefits together with some hack ideas:

Remarkable is that a large amount of the inspiratory photo’s in the gallery show how users have applied Sugru to make something prettier or recognisable. Not so much ‘hacking things better’ as doing handicrafts decorating.

I was interviewed by my friend in front of a green screen, dressed for the jungle, about the elephants in the background (Presenteren kun je leren). Underneath you see an example of a girl playing with the installation.

We made a short stop motion film with the ready to hand Lego figures and toy dinosaur (Stop! Motion!).

Cinekidstudio webpage with Stop!Motion! gallery.

And we decorated ourselves by angling funny attributes to our body with the help of fluorescent pink post-its (Digital puppetry). This installation is explained in the following clip.

Graduation project of Jihyun Ryou who regretted the loss of traditional knowledge about our food. We entrust the process of storing nutritional goods to the refrigerator, with devastating effects on the products. Retrieving instructions on how to store certain types of food best, she made this traditional oral knowledge visible again through these food racks.